CS: Target-Public ranges in Massachusetts

2000-07-14 Thread Gregory
From: "Gregory", [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's Blue Trail Range in Wallingford, Connecticut, about 2 - 3 hrs. from Cape Cod.(Not sure if they "rent" pistols...) Then there's my ranges in Kent, Ct. 3-1/2 hrs from Cape Cod in western Ct. I have various pistols too. Gregory Cybershooters website: h

CS: Target-Shooting on TV

2000-07-14 Thread Norman
From: Norman Bassett, [EMAIL PROTECTED] So as not to re-invent the wheel, perhaps US contributors could tell us the formats of US televised shooting competitions? Has anyone any experience of asking the BBC or other TV companies about this? Has anyone any experience of asking British shooting

CS: Pol-Gun-grabbers: masters of the New Plantation

2000-07-14 Thread Thomas
From: Thomas A Chandler, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA EDITORS: IN FOURTH-TO-LAST PARAGRAPH OF THIS VERSION ONLY, NOTE USE OF POSSIBLY OBJECTIONABLE TERM 'NIGGERTOWN.' ADDITIONALLY: A SHORTER VERSION, AT 900 WORDS, ALSO MOVES FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED JULY 16, 2000 THE LIBERTARIAN,

CS: Pol-BASC visit No 10

2000-07-14 Thread Pete Ansbro
From: "Pete Ansbro", [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Jack Straw / /declined to take the letter and petition. Isn't that rather pathetic from a member of the Government? It's not as if it could have been a summons in connection with minor drugs trafficking. What on earth might he hope to achieve, other t

CS: Pol-Revolver tribute to shot Beatle

2000-07-14 Thread Christopher Fettweis
From: "Christopher Fettweis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] As of two weeks ago, it was still there. But maybe they over-nighted it. Chris >>> Steven Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/14/00 10:32AM >>> From: "Christopher Fettweis", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve - It's in front of the UN in NYC.

CS: Pol-toddlers find sawn-off shotgun

2000-07-14 Thread Adrian
From: Adrian, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Two toddlers were discovered playing a deadly game after they >found a loaded sawn-off shotgun dumped by criminals. > >A police armed response team was sent to deal with the incident. > Why armed? Were they expecting to shoot the toddlers or the parents? -- A

CS: Pol-toddlers find sawn-off shotgun

2000-07-14 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Manchester Evening News, 13 July 2000 Toddlers' game with a loaded gun by Neal Keeling Two toddlers wer discovered playing a deadly game after they found a loaded sawn-off shotgun dumped by criminals. --snip-- The mother has now star

CS: Pol-Injustice of Straw's Hooligan Bill

2000-07-14 Thread Alan
From: Alan Phillips, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Good letter in today's (14 July) Times'. Well I would think that wouldn't I. Sir William Rees-Mogg, writing (10th July) on the illiberal nature of Jack Straw's proposals for curbing football hooliganism, said: "This is a new concept in British Law,

CS: Pol-Letter in Daily Telegraph

2000-07-14 Thread Heinrich
From: Heinrich Harke, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did any of the cybershooters spot my letter in the DT last week? I was away, and I have already unsubscribed in order to avoid being flooded with messages whilst away in Germany and Russia for 8 weeks. Just in case, here it is. My letter to the Editor of

CS: Pol-legitimate uses

2000-07-14 Thread E.J. Totty
From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Firearms were invented and developed to kill. [...] Well, that's like saying that cornstarch was invented to keep our shirts pressed stiff . . . I would challenge such an assertion on the following: (a)

CS: Pol-Revolver tribute to shot Beatle

2000-07-14 Thread RustyBullethole
From: RustyBullethole, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It is not clear whether this statue was merely "unveiled" >in Trafalgar Square or whether it is to be a perminent fixture >there, if the latter is true then it is a disgrace and I doubt >it will survive another march unscathed. >>Why is it a disgrace

CS: Legal-Felony Penalties for Trivial Features of a Rifle

2000-07-14 Thread John Hurst
From: "John Hurst", [EMAIL PROTECTED] (repost of a classic Vin Suprynowicz column) Felony Penalties for Trivial Features of a Rifle by Vin Suprynowicz October 14, 1998 Opening the October mailbag Though I usually distrust mail written under pseudonyms, the author of a letter which poured in

CS: Pol-Revolver tribute to shot Beatle

2000-07-14 Thread Christopher Fettweis
From: "Christopher Fettweis", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve - It's in front of the UN in NYC. Chris -- Is it still there or have they just shipped it over to Trafalgar Square? Steve. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

CS: Target-Public ranges in Massachusetts

2000-07-14 Thread Neil
From: Neil Wareham, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm fortunate enough to be spending a few weeks in Cape Cod on business soon. I was wondering if anybody knew of a range in that area who would let a Limey ex-pistol shooter have a bit of a play. Thanks Neil -- Massachusetts has the worse gun laws in the

CS: Target-Shooters Support Airgunners

2000-07-14 Thread Tom Charnock
From: "Tom Charnock", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim, Fantastic to see your support for all forms of shooters, we need more good souls like you. I think we all agree that the volume of airgunners are not into clubs and are therefore impossible to get organised. But what is going to happen when the HA

CS: Target-air rifles

2000-07-14 Thread Alex Hamilton
From: "Alex Hamilton", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The problem with air rifles and pistols, Jim, is that people can shoot them without having to belong to clubs, yet without club competitions target shooting in its purest form soon becomes boring. We have a 10 metre air range and 25 metre pistol calibre

CS: Pol-British Protection Squad Recruit??

2000-07-14 Thread Martyn
From: "Martyn", [EMAIL PROTECTED] D'oh, I was cleaning it with my finger on the trigger, pointing it at my brother and I forgot to check there was no dangerous exploding thingies in it. Does that mean I'm back on the beat, Sarge British teenager killed in Yemen shooting accident BY DANN

CS: Pol-legitimate uses

2000-07-14 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom, I'm afraid I have to disagree also. >I must disagree with you cars legitimate reason AK47's don't. I used to use >similar weapon in UK for pract. rifle (I still use an AK47 in Norway). Firearms were invented and developed to kill. The fact that

CS: Pol-Revolver tribute to shot Beatle

2000-07-14 Thread Paul McDermott
From: "Paul McDermott", [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It is not clear whether this statue was merely "unveiled" >in Trafalgar Square or whether it is to be a perminent fixture >there, if the latter is true then it is a disgrace and I doubt >it will survive another march unscathed. Why is it a disgrace?

CS: Pol-toddlers find sawn-off shotgun

2000-07-14 Thread shootist
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The mother has now started a petition to get the bushes, > which have been in the street for more than 20 years, removed. She'll succeed of course, you can't argue with an enraged Mother unles you wan't to be branded as a potential kiddie Murderer. This Country is r

CS: Misc-latin quote

2000-07-14 Thread Ron Rosenfeld
From: "Ron Rosenfeld", [EMAIL PROTECTED] is tihis the quote? "Quemadmoeum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est." ("A sword is never a killer, it's a tool in the killer's hands.") -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca "the Younger" (ca. 4 BC-65 AD). Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters

CS: Pol-Petition

2000-07-14 Thread John
From: John Howat/Wellington Sporting Arms Co Ltd, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A delegation of shooting enthusiasts today took a petition of 50,000 signatures opposing plans for new firearms controls to Downing Street." [cut] To have a better chance of success you should have every one of that 50,000 a

CS: Misc-Clarification of latin quote

2000-07-14 Thread John Sukey
From: "John Sukey", [EMAIL PROTECTED] The sword is not a killer, it is a tool in the hands of a killer. Need the latin text. It Did appear in the last few days on the forum. Cybershooters website: http://www.cybershooters.org List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___